Israel urges residents of ten other areas of Rafah to leave the area immediately

The Israeli Army this Saturday urged residents of ten other sectors of the city of Rafah to immediately leave the place towards the west of the city and has issued additional orders for neighborhoods in the towns of Jabalia and Beit Lahia, in the north of the enclave.

The orders for Rafah affect sectors 6 to 9, 17, 25 to 27 and 31, which are practically at the border crossing with Egypt. Its residents, urges Israeli Army spokesman Colonel Avichay Adraee, should go to the Al Mawasi area, in the southwest of the city, as has already happened in previous warnings. The spokesperson has also ordered residents and displaced people from Jabalia and Beit Lahia to leave the area, specifically in the neighborhoods of Al Salam, Al Nour, Tal Al Zaatar, Ezbet Mlin, Al Rauda, ​​Al Nuzha, Al Jarn, Al Nahda and Al Zuhur, to immediately go “to the shelters in western Gaza City.” The Israeli Army warns all those affected that they are in a dangerous combat zone because the Hamas militias “are trying to rebuild their capabilities in the region.” “Everyone in those areas they expose themselves and their families to danger“, warn the military.

The city, on the southern edge of Gaza, is the last refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced from other parts of the enclave by Israeli bombing. The offensive on Rafah has already caused nearly 110,000 have had to escape again from the areas where they had been displaced in the first place, as indicated by the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Although the Israeli Army claims that it warns the civilian population in advance of these attacks, United Nations officials consider what Israel calls “evacuation orders” as an emergency protocol. forced displacementcontrary to international law.